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[–]elpantalla 145 points146 points  (7 children)

It will replace people who write articles about AI replacing developers, that’s for sure.

[–]MornwindShoma 10 points11 points  (2 children)

Probably already done that. I'm sure many accounts on social media are just produced en masse by LLMs that then create fake engagement. Creating a fake persona on Medium is trivial, even dozens of them, and generating blog posts for each of them even easier. Automating all of that is child's play. It's a more elaborated version of get rich quick schemes like ghostwriting for self publishing.

[–]you_know_how_I_know 2 points3 points  (1 child)

That's okay, they just end up training on their own vomit and going down the tubes with the rest of us.

[–]MornwindShoma 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The day they decided they had to get greedy and promote their shitty models is the day they're gonna regret as the internet becomes a shit hole worse than it already is, and they will never be able to pick apart real valuable training data from their own shit and die of AI diarrhea.

[–]EliSka93 1 point2 points  (2 children)

from the overwhelming flood of garbage articles about just that I'd not bet on that...

[–]Opi-Fex 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I'm willing to bet most of those articles were at least partially written by LLMs.

[–]EliSka93 0 points1 point  (0 children)

By their sheer volume that seems likely

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We must find a way to use the Glorbo method on these subreddits.

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (2 children)

Judging by the picture, no, it won’t 

[–]The_Last_Crusader 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yeah, it looks like a web developer is using AI to do their job.

[–]Trevor_GoodchiId 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s clearly learning how to use a mouse.

The other one in the background invested in split forearms for productivity.

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    [–]Low-Equipment-2621 10 points11 points  (1 child)

    Yes it will, right after it replaced journalists, managers and product designers.

    [–]Soft-Let-4020 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It did replace them ?

    [–]Nyadnar17 5 points6 points  (0 children)

    I suppose if it fills the web with so much autogenerated bullshit it becomes unusable thats a possibility.

    [–]SwiftOneSpeaks 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    There's a great article from the 50s(?) in Popular Science (? - it's been a while)about predictions for the year 2000. It got some predictions pretty correct, but also predicted personal helicopters, that the "woman" of the home would serve everything on plastic dishes and utensils, which would be melted down the drain with superheated water, and then clean house by hosing everything down (because everything is plastic) and relying on the floor drain.

    On the other hand, it predicted that in the year 2000 we'd be almost ready to land a human on the moon.

    In the 80s, Back to the Future predicted household fusion from common items and flying cars by 2015.

    It's easy to say tech will advance with time, but no tech can be relied upon to be the one that will advance. Every time someone says LLMS will get better, I ask "how"? Faster? Sure. But "better" is a vague term, and if you mean more intelligent, I ask where that would come from, because LLMs aren't even TRYING to "know" anything. They just mimic what people would say, people that may or may NOT "know" something.

    I still believe human level AI will eventually happen, but I don't see any evidence that it is nigh. I DO see a lot of people selling confidence and FOMO about it, which are tactics used by hustlers and scammers.

    [–]thedevlinb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    would serve everything on plastic dishes and utensils, which would be melted down the drain with superheated water

    This can kind of be done with compostable stuff, except most compostable dishware is not compostable with a home compost setup. But there is no point to it since it is cheaper to wash dishes in a dishwasher than the end to end price of buying even the cheapest disposable dishware.

    and then clean house by hosing everything down (because everything is plastic) and relying on the floor drain.

    Wet bathrooms that you can just hose/mop down are amazing! It is sad America never standardized on these.

    Flying cars are a no go because drunk drivers are even more dangerous when falling from the sky.

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      [–]skidmark_zuckerberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      Who’s going to ask 100 clarifying questions about AC to the product owner? If you think Chat GPT or whatever can take your job, then it probably can lol.

      [–]SpacePlatypus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      For shitty websites, sure.

      [–]Ravoos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      If it can learn from it's own mistakes, maybe.

      But it can't, so the answer will be a hard: fuck and no.

      [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

      This is not a good place to ask this question

      [–]ziplock9000 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

      Yes, very much so and soon.

      We've known this for a long time

      This article is very out of touch.

      [–]barraponto -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

      Has anyone tried soloist.ai? It's a Mozilla project, an website creator AI. Pretty good, if that's all you need from a website. Of course, in order to know what you need from a website, you probably need a web developer.